Recent Submissions

Establishing governance structures for Super Rugby in NZ
• How to position its involvement in the newly established Super Rugby competition given its allocation of five teams (franchises).
• Establishing governance ...

Environmental changes such as commercialism, advances in technology and increased competition have significantly influenced the way organisations operate. In particular, firms have to strategically adapt and match their ...

One of the components of this response involves the latent period of simple sensor-motor reaction that is often viewed to be the result of integrative brain function [Bernstein,1967]. The influence of the motor component ...

Many studies of the reaction time (RT) expressed this index as the interval between the time of signal detection and the beginning of motor response. Reaction time is widely used in various fields of science and practice: ...

Sport and exercise is critical for healthy communities, but participation is inevitably associated with exposure to risk of musculoskeletal injury. Loss of participation due to injury not only threatens the health benefit ...

The use of public funds to host major sport events is a contentious issue that all major cities face. It is expensive to host a major sport event, and the benefits, or lack of, associated with hosting have been widely ...

This study arose from media and sporting organisations’ concerns in New Zealand about the sideline behaviour of adults at children’s team sporting events. The aim of the study was to measure and elicit the perspectives of ...

The definition "extreme“ in relation to sport is performed in a hazardous environment and involves great risk. In the modern world of extreme sports, a number of factors require an athlete to have maximum concentration, ...

Sport governance “is the responsibility for the functioning and direction of the organisation and is a necessary and institutionalised component of all sports codes from club level to national bodies, government agencies, ...

So what is SB and when do we do it?
• SB is <1MET
• SB in adults occurs in three phases throughout the day; during transport, occupationally and leisure time.
• SB higher in younger, educated, white collar
Prevalence: ...

What do you want to know?
What is critical thinking and why is it important?
Definitions of critical thinking Higher Order Critical Thinking (HoCT) and Sociological Critical Thinking (SoCT) in relation to the New ...

It is widely discussed that physical education is missed out on in primary schools because of a lack of confidence and/or competence in teachers.
Fortunately the current curriculum promotes five key competencies that ...

How did we end up here?
Wanted to think differently about course design – What is a ‘physically educated’ student?
Concerned about an over-reliance on standards for course design
Curiosity around scholarship (esp. ...

Background and objective:
Somatotyping is helpful in sports in which the body shape could influence the resulting performance. The purpose of this study was to determine the somatotype of high profile Lithuanian athletes ...

This paper reports on a future-focused model for practitioner-led inquiry (PLI) in secondary Health and Physical Education (HPE). As a future-focused model this paper draws the notion of the Flipped Classroom (Tucker, ...

Focus: Ownership changes in the context of governance design
1st Set the scene – different ownership models
2nd Story of Rugby Union’s journey
3rd Where we have got to with the research project and where we want ...